Sunday, March 3, 2013

Change: Wrestle weapon from a gunman, get suspended from High School for involvement in gun incident...

A Florida high school student wrestled a
loaded gun away from another teen on the bus ride home this week and
was slapped with a suspension in return.

The 16-year-old Cypress Lake High student in Fort Myers, Fla. told WFTX-TV
there was “no doubt” he saved a life after grappling for the loaded .22
caliber revolver being aimed point-blank at another student on Tuesday.

“I think he was really going to shoot
him right then and there,” said the suspended student, not identified by
WFTX because of safety concerns. “Not taking no pity.”

The student said the suspect, a football player, threatened to shoot a teammate because he had been arguing with his friend.

Authorities confirmed to WFTX the weapon was indeed loaded, and the arrest report stated the suspect, identified by WVZN-TV as Quadryle Davis, was “pointing the gun directly” at the other student and “threatening to shoot him.”[...]

The school’s referral slip said he was
given an “emergency suspension” for being involved in an “incident” with
a weapon. Lee County School District spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said
in a statement that “If there is a potentially dangerous situation,
Florida law allows the principal to suspend a student immediately
pending a hearing.”